A4053 crash in Coventry on 26 November 2003 at 11:43 involving a Citroen C5
A Citroen C5 and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A4053 in Coventry at 11:43 on Wednesday 26 November 2003. The 42-year-old male driver of the Citroen C5 and a 25-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Golf were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Nov 2003
- Wednesday, 11:43
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen C5 and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.40819, longitude -1.50147, in the CV1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Michael's, Coventry, CV1 1LL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200320M090201
- Council area
- Coventry
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4053
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 December 2012.
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A4600 in Coventry, 27 December 2012
10 m awayRef 201220M500932
Slight
Honda CBF125M crash on the A4600 in Coventry, 22 November 2012
10 m awayRef 201220M016242
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A4053 in Coventry, 8 November 2002
14 m awayRef 200220M079001
Slight
Car crash on the A4600 in Coventry, 29 May 2010
14 m awayRef 201020M004520
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A4600 in Coventry, 9 November 2004
14 m awayRef 200420M075901
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4600 in Coventry, 28 February 2019
16 m awayRef 2019200857487
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 2,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C5)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 200320M090201 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Coventry road accident statistics for 2003.